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To celebrate the Foundation’s 70th anniversary, we have published a trio of books that examine the Great Ideas through the lens of popular music, film, and television. Featuring superb writers from the last 70 years, these anthologies challenge our assumptions about the range and influence of popular art and culture.

The writing is contemporary but the subject matter is iconic, focusing on figures such as Elvis Presley, whose career bridged music, film, and television. Presley’s impact grows increasingly complex, a phenomenon first expressed by Leonard Bernstein: “Elvis Presley is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. . . . He introduced the beat to everything and he changed everything—music, lan-guage, clothes. It’s a whole new social revolution—the sixties came from it. Because of him a man like me barely knows his musical grammar anymore.”

At the Foundation, in our 70th year, we continue to question the grammar, the set of rules, govern-ing the Great Books. We focused on writing by women at Great Books Chicago 2017, highlighting pieces from our recent anthology, Her Own Accord. In 2018, Great Books Chicago will focus on Big Ideas in Popular Culture, using our new anthologies as keystones for the weekend. We are working to establish a Great Books Council of the Southwest, and we are revisiting and improving our science

series with a forthcoming updated edition of The Nature of Life. The Great Books Foundation is one of the founding members of the Alliance for Liberal Learning, an organization that will bring Great Books luminaries to Chicago for a spring conference investi-gating the connections be-tween business and liberal

learning. Currently in development, and in collabo-ration with WFMT, the Chicago History Museum, and the Studs Terkel Radio Archive, is a groundbreaking audio program that allows students and adults to listen to and discuss Studs Terkel’s interviews with political, academic, cultural, and literary icons of the 20th century.

It has been a year rich with change and innovation, and in the volatile political climate of our times, the Foundation’s commitment to civil discourse and civic engagement has been renewed and strengthened.

I invite you to join us as the Foundation begins its next 70 years.

Joseph P. CoulsonPresident, The Great Books Foundation

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These new anthologies of short stories, poems, memoirs, essays, interviews, journalism, and lyrics are certain to inspire lively discussion. The three volumes showcase some of the best writing on popular culture topics over the past 70 years. Together as a boxed set, or individually, these collections are thought-provoking, challenging, and engaging additions to the Great Books collection.

Tube Talk selections include:• The Great Divide Emily Nussbaum• Brad Carrigan, American George Saunders• Dolls and Feelings Ariel Levy• The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Gil Scott-Heron• The Moon Hours E. B. White

The great ideas are all around us! Across music, film, and television, popular culture is a rich source of vibrant and provocative writing on ideas central to our modern world.

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Double Features selections include:• Sky Shot Manuel Muñoz• Selection from The Birds Camille Paglia• Selection from Better Living Through Criticism

A. O. Scott• Selection from In the Blink of an Eye

Walter Murch• Some Months After My Father’s Death

Sheryl St. Germain

Sound Bites selections include:• Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes? Tracy K. Smith• Sonny’s Blues James Baldwin• Soul Survivor David Remnick• Selection from Elvis Presley Bobbie Ann Mason• A Poem for Ella Fitzgerald Sonia Sanchez

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Discussion questions available at greatbooks .org /bigideas include:• What does Carl Wilson mean when he writes that

“the kind of contempt that’s mobilized by ‘cool’ taste is inimical . . . to an aesthetics that might support a good public life”? (Sound Bites)

• Why does David Mamet say that the job of the film director is “to tell the story through the juxtaposition of uninflected images”? (Double Features)

• Wh y does Alan Nadel say that watching tele- vision in the 1950s made one “the definitive citizen”? (Tube Talk)

• What does Simon Critchley mean when he claims, “To turn yourself to face yourself is not to confront your authentic subjectivity”? (Sound Bites)

James Baldwin Author of “Sonny’s Blues,” included in Sound Bites: Big Ideas in Popular Music.

The virago lays bare the fact that “feminine” and “masculine” are consensual fictions, designed to keep both women and men in their place.

—From “Furiosa: The Virago of Mad Max: Fury Road,“ by Jess Zimmerman

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At a time when the experiences, challenges, and achievements of women are central to our cultural discourse, the selections in Her Own Accord: American Women on Identity, Culture, and Community offer a range of contemporary viewpoints.

Poetry, fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, and journalistic works are all included. Together, these selections and their accompanying discussion questions allow readers to explore how gender informs every aspect of a woman’s life, including self and identity, family, sex and relationships, work and creativity, and activism and politics.

Selections include:• Even the Queen Connie Willis• The Box House and the Snow Cristina Henríquez• Freedom Fighter Perri Klass• One Out of Twelve: Writers Who Are Women in Our

Century Tillie Olsen• Drinking Coffee Elsewhere ZZ Packer• Ways of Conquest Denise Levertov

Discussion questions include:• For “At Odds,” an essay by Julia Serano: Why does

Serano believe her sexual orientation and becom-ing female are conflicting desires?

• For “Lowering Your Standards for Food Stamps,” a poem by Sheryl Luna: Why does the speaker say that she is “unlearning America’s languages”?

• For “Freedom Fighter,” a short story by Perri Klass: Why does Jan think of herself as “a rebel, an iconoclast, a strange and estranged and angry freedom fighter”?

• For “Recitatif,” a short story by Toni Morrison: At the end of the story, why does Roberta cry and ask, “What the hell happened to Maggie?”

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Wilfred Owen Author of Dulce et Decorum Est in Counterparts

Discussion questions include:• According to Horace, why is it “sweet and fitting

to die for one’s country”?• After the beach house trip, why does Sedaris

agree with the woman who says that five siblings make “a big family”?

• Why does Suleri say Ifat’s story is about “the price a mind must pay when it lives in a beautiful body”?

• Why does Jonson think that Shakespeare is “for all time”?

Counterparts presents pairs of contrasting texts that interact with one another in differing and surprising ways.

These texts may take opposing views on issues or contend with ideas presented by other scholars, and together they offer a range of perspectives on topics such as art and war, love and fidelity, gender, aspira-tion, and death. Explore the ongoing conversation between writers of different eras.

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Paired selections include:

• The Immoderation of Ifat Sara Suleri• Now We Are Five David Sedaris

• The Little Mermaid Hans Christian Andersen• The Pangs of Love Jane Gardam

• Ode 3.2 Horace• Dulce et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen

• In Which the Story Pauses a Little George Eliot• The Decay of Lying Oscar Wilde

• An Arundel Tomb Philip Larkin• Love Is Not a Pie Amy Bloom

• Rappaccini’s Daughter Nathaniel Hawthorne• Vivisection Claude Bernard

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What happens when we attempt to mold complex communities into our vision of the perfect state? The selections in Imperfect Ideal: Utopian and Dystopian Visions illustrate the best and worst consequences of such efforts.

All 23 selections in this anthology challenge readers to question how society should be structured and governed, as well as what kinds of communities are most conducive to human fulfillment, both privately and in the civic arena.

Selections include:• The Machine Stops E. M. Forster• Time Riichi Yokomitsu• Black Box Jennifer Egan• Selection from A New View of Society

Robert Owen• Utopia Wisława Szymborska• Selection from The City of God Saint Augustine• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

Ursula K. Le Guin• On the Cannibals Michel de Montaigne• Jon George Saunders• Selection from Utopia Thomas More

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are delighted to offer free down-loadable discussion guides to several utopian and dystopian novels and films. The guides are

available at greatbooks .org/discussion-guides/ and offer context, discussion questions, and author information on The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 1984 by George Orwell, and The Republic by Plato, as well as Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner.

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Immigrant Voices: 21st Century Stories is a contemporary anthology of topical short stories written by recent immigrants to the United States.

This book engages readers with perennial questions about the relation of the individual to society. Eighteen short stories speak to the experiences, concerns, and aspirations of those who have left their homeland for a new life in the United States.

Discussion questions include:• What does the narrator mean when he says, “The

grandiose illusion of the exile is that they are all back home, your enemies and your friends, voy-eurs all, watching you”?

• Why might Mickey feel he is “unable to keep up with the demands of being here and there at the same time”?

• What does the father mean when he says to the narrator, “You’ve become American”?

• Why does Zichen see her life as a “life of flight”?• Why does the narrator say that the migrant

becomes “hostage” to something in her soul?

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Including works by:

• Daniel Alarcón• Meena Alexander• Sefi Atta• Edwidge Danticat• Junot Díaz• Aleksandar Hemon• Porochista Khakpour• Reese Okyong Kwon• Lawrence La

Fountain-Stokes• Yiyun Li• Emma Ruby-Sachs

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participants. We tackled “Letting Go” by M. Evelina

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Safe” because each posed different moti-vations for leaving America or yearning to

come. We will continue to explore other stories from this anthology because there has never been a better time to explain to

ourselves what being an American truly means. Any Great Books discussion group that ignores contemporary issues such as race relations and immigration is missing

out on what we can learn from each other.—Louis Wu

Houston Great Books Council

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The Civic ArenaIn this time of increasing polarization and partisanship, considered and civil discourse is more necessary than ever. In several anthologies, we offer a range of readings that invite reflection on the nature of citizenship, civility, collaboration, and progress.

The Civically Engaged Reader assembles more than 40 provocative and diverse readings that range across literature, philosophy, and religion. These selections invite reflection on all kinds of civic-minded activities—from giving and serving to leading and associating—and on the vital connections between thought and service.

Selections include:• Waiting for the Barbarians Constantine Cavafy• Theme for English B Langston Hughes• Selection from The Souls of Black Folk

W. E. B. Du Bois• Dry Dock Margaret Sutherland• The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements

Jane Addams• Where Were We Dave Eggers• If All Who Have Begged Help Anna Akhmatova• The Helmsman Franz Kafka• The Lesson Toni Cade Bambara

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How relevant are historical documents to the United States today? Are Americans still grappling with the same issues that inspired historical texts? The Will of the People: Readings in American Democracy brings together 14 monumental texts and invites discus-sion of their meaning and continuing significance.

Selections include:• Declaration of Independence• The Federalist No. 10 James Madison• Constitution of the United States of America• Farewell Address George Washington• Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions,

Seneca Falls Convention• Emancipation Proclamation Abraham Lincoln• Second Inaugural Address Abraham Lincoln• The United States of America vs. Susan B. Anthony• Let America Be America Again Langston Hughes• Letter from Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King Jr.

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How has the concept of human rights devel-oped throughout history? Citizens of the World is a comprehensive anthology with selections ranging from memoir and fiction to legal and historical documents. The pieces help readers understand how abstract concepts such as the rule of law, freedom, and human dignity have evolved. Discussion questions will stimulate vibrant and meaningful dialogue.

Taking Action features more than 50 short read-ings—essays, stories, and poetry—and six visual images ideal for discussion. This stimulating col-lection is the perfect material for group sessions of educators, social workers, community organizers, medical and law enforcement personnel, and others involved in public life who wish to reflect on the convictions, assumptions, and challenges that drive their activities.

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Politics Aristotle

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Barn Burning William Faulkner

Of Civil Government John Locke

In Exile Anton Chekhov

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Sorrow-Acre Isak Dinesen

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It’s easy to join one of the many Great Books discus-sion groups across the United States and Canada. To see if there’s a group in your area, check out greatbooks .org/bookgroups/.

• Select a date, time, and place for your initial meet-ing. Gather an excited and enthusiastic group of participants, ideally between 8 and 12 people.

• Determine where you’re going to meet, perhaps at a library, community center, church, or a mem-ber’s home. And determine how often you’re going to meet. Many groups meet monthly as this gives participants enough time to carefully read longer selections or to read shorter selections twice.

• Use this catalog and our website to choose the Great Books anthology you want to use and pick your first reading. Choose your first discussion leader and decide how you’ll pick discussion leaders in the future.

Enjoy yourselves! We at Great Books believe that the discussion of literature is a fun and challenging way to become thoughtful, more engaged citizens.

For more information on leading a Shared Inquiry discussion, please download our free Shared Inquiry Handbook and watch our videos available at greatbooks .org/how-to-videos/.

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2018 Great Books EventsSouthwest Great Books WeekendTempe, Arizona • February 16–18, 2018

Spend the weekend learning about the impact of popular culture and the power of Shared Inquiry discussion. The Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix provides the setting for Big Ideas in Popular Culture: Music, Film, and Television, a day of readings and discussions focused on the questions, challenges, and influence of popular art. We’ll also take first steps toward building a Great Books Council of the Southwest, a community association dedicated to reading, listening, discussion, and lifelong learning.

Art, Reason and Emotion: The Head vs. the HeartHouston, Texas • February 24, 2018This event at the Houston Museum of Fine Artswill delve into the art of discussing works of art.

San Francisco Leader/Reader WorkshopSan Rafael, California • March 3, 2018

An annual one-day workshop aimed at improving skills and enjoyment while leading and/or partici-pating in Shared Inquiry discussions.

Barbara McConnell Great Books Weekend at AsilomarPacific Grove, California • April 13–15, 2018

Theme: American Classics. A weekend of Shared Inquiry discussions at the beautiful Asilomar State Park and Conference Center. Readings include: W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk; Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness; Eugene O’Neill, The Iceman Cometh; and selected poetry.

Gold Country Mini-RetreatAuburn, California • May 19, 2018

A one-day discussion of a book (usually a work of nonfiction) along with a viewing of its film adapta-tion, in the heart of Gold Country. Reading TBD.

Northern California Annual Meeting and PicnicBerkeley, California • June 10, 2018

A quick meeting, a potluck picnic, and a book dis-cussion in Berkeley’s Tilden Park. All are welcome. Reading TBD.

Toronto PursuitsToronto • July 10–15, 2018

Power: Does it necessarily corrupt? What is the relationship between power and freedom? How do we determine the just use of power? This event examines these questions and many more.

For an up-to-date listing of regional Great Books events nationwide and in Canada, visit greatbooks .org/gbevents .

Great Books Chicago 2018Chicago, Illinois • May 4–6

This year we probe Big Ideas in Popular Culture using the Foundation’s new trio of anthologies on film, music, and television. Gary Schoepfel and a cadre of experienced leaders will facilitate exciting discussions, as well as host additional outings to Blue Man Group, Second City, and the Green Mill (arguably Chicago’s best jazz bar). Take advantage of Chicago’s cultural treasures. Join us at Great Books Chicago!

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People of all ages and backgrounds gather to talk about writings that inspire, puzzle, entertain, and enlighten them.

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Now active in 18 states, Talking Service is our reading and discussion program for returning veterans. The program helps men and women of the armed forces work through some of the challenges they face in rebuilding their lives. Talking Service has the potential to expand into many more communities across the country. Your support will enable us to establish groups in all 50 states.

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What Is Talking Service? Talking Service discussions focus on short works of literature in Standing Down: From Warrior to Civilian, an anthology of classic and contemporary writings on military experience. Meeting in small groups led by trained facilitators, veterans talk with their peers about ideas and issues prompted by the shared readings and enriched by their own experiences.

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